You may not have noticed, but a huge global movement is well on its way to creating the next generation of the internet. This massive technological sea change is largely being driven by a key innovation in database technology called the blockchain, and many...
Economic growth sits at the root of all plans to tackle poverty. The two concepts – growth and poverty reduction – are treated as practically interchangeable. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the new UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which promise to...
Tell yourself it’s easy to fix—and that you’re not responsible for it. Hope sells. Not quite as well as sex, but certainly better than despair. Politicians know this, marketers know this, and the politicians and marketers in the organizations concerned...
This blog was originally published on Medium as part of Story Europe Reading the commentaries on #Greece in the last few weeks, it’s clear that there is a degree of genuine shock and consternation rippling through groups who have traditionally been the main...
The article originally appeared on Common Dreams on 17th April 2015. Reach the author on Twitter at: @martinkirk_ny. There is a battle raging over the future of farming on this planet, and the front line, this week, is at the Spring Meetings of the World Bank...
